SHIP/FERRY/SUB - DISASTERS |
| 1912, 1062 died when TITANIC, 46.329 BRT collided with iceberg and sank in the North Atlantic Ocean. |
| May 7th, 1915 the Lusitania, 32.000 BRT was sunk by German "U 20". Out of 1,959 passengers 1,198 died. |
| 30th January 1945, German Wilhelm Gustloff, 25,484 tons, exactly 9,343 deaths, sunk in the Baltic Sea. |
| April 16, 1945 German fugitive ship "Goya" went down at Rixhöft with 6,500 fugitives. |
| July 25th 1956 Andrea Doria sinks off New York. 50 passengers die out of 1962 on board. |
| March 6, 1987: Channel ferry Herald of free Enterprise capsized at Zeebrügge harbour with 193 deaths. |
20th December 1987, Dona Paz, a Philippine ferry collided with a tanker and sank with 4,341 passengers. |
| April 1990, a fire raged through the Scandinavian Star ferry, Oslo-Copenhagen, killing 158 passengers. |
| August 22, 1994 sinking of the Estonia in the Baltic Sea, which claimed 852 lives. |
| Sub Wrecks on the Ocean Floor |
April 10, 1963: USS Thresher sinks off the New England coast with all 129 men aboard. It sits at a depth of 8,530 feet. |
May 22, 1968: USS Scorpion sinks east of the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean with 99 men aboard. It sits at a depth of 9,860 feet. |
| April 11, 1970: Soviet November class submarine sinks in the Bay of Biscay outside Spain in the Atlantic Ocean. It sits at a depth of 15,354 feet. |
| Oct. 3, 1986: Soviet submarine catches fire and sinks east of Bermuda, killing three sailors. Nuclear warheads also reportedly broke open, spewing plutonium into the Atlantic. It sits at a depth of 16,404 feet. |
April 7, 1989: Soviet submarine, the Komsomolets, catches fire and sinks off Norway, killing 42 of the 69 sailors aboard. It sits at a depth of 4,500 feet. |
August 12, 2000: Soviet submarine, the Kursk, sinks off Murmansk with 118 sailors aboard. |